Bug 21663
| Summary: | xinetd gets ROOTs home variables (breaks cvs) | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Stephen John Smoogen <smooge> |
| Component: | xinetd | Assignee: | Trond Eivind Glomsrxd <teg> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | CC: | dr |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2000-12-03 23:12:21 UTC | Type: | --- |
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I'll unset it. Fixed in xinetd-2.1.8.9pre13-3, coming soon to a Rawhide near you. |
xinetd like inetd before it gets various enviroment variables of the root user. One of those variables is $HOME which when setting up a CVS pserver causes the following problem: smooge:{public_html}$ cvs co CVSROOT cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied cvs [server aborted]: can't chdir(/root): Permission denied A fix was the following to the /etc/init.d/xinetd file was the following: root:{/root}# diff -u ./xinetd.orig /etc/init.d/xinetd --- ./xinetd.orig Sun Dec 3 17:39:55 2000 +++ /etc/init.d/xinetd Sun Dec 3 17:34:02 2000 @@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin +export HM_TMP=$HOME +export HOME="" + # Source function library. . /etc/init.d/functions @@ -94,4 +97,5 @@ RETVAL=1 esac +export HOME=$HM_TMP exit $RETVAL